Happy birthday, Singapore! Today, our nation celebrates 45 years of independence. Like many other Singaporean families, we watched the National Day Parade on telly with our extended family at home. How about you? Xiao long bao aka soup dumplings may not be a local culinary creation, but this famous Shanghai snack is very popular here. [...]
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Posted in Eat-Out: Sweets & Munchies on Aug 8th, 2010
Noticed the recent explosion of frozen yogurt cafes? It’s great news for fro-yo lovers like me! With competition heating up, fro-yo cafes are upping the ante to attract customers. One of the newest kids on the scene is Yigloo, located at Basement 2 of VivoCity. It’s next to Petite Provence and where the food kiosks [...]
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Prawn noodles, aka prawn mee or “hae mee” in Hokkien, is another beloved created-in-Singapore dish. Click here to read a side-by-side comparison of five of the best prawn noodles in Singapore.
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Posted in Hubby's breakfast on Aug 2nd, 2010
Many of you have been asking, “Have you stopped feeding your hubby breakfast?” Of course not. First of all, dear monster-in-law mother-in-law would have killed me! Secondly… Hmm ok, there’s no secondly, heh! It’s just that I got lazy. So breakfast was mostly DIY sliced bread with peanut butter/jam/butter/Nutella. Nothing exciting to share. But here’s [...]
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Posted in Eat-Out: Chinese on Aug 1st, 2010
Howdy, dear friends! It wasn’t my intention to go AWOL for so long. Here’s what happened to me: Got really busy, then got really sick, and then really busy again. Three Sundays ago, Rick and I had a double-date with Keropokman and his babe (and my old schoolmate), Momo. It was Momo who suggested dimsum [...]
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